EXPONENT: Raising e to a Power

Syntax: How to Raise the Constant e to a Power

EXPONENT(power)

where:

power

Numeric

Is the power to which to raise e. The output data type is numeric.

Example: Raising e to a Power

The following request prints the value of e and the value of e raised to the fifth power.

DEFINE FILE WF_RETAIL_LITE
EXP1/D12.5 = EXPONENT(1);
EXP2/D12.5 = EXPONENT(5);
END
TABLE FILE WF_RETAIL_LITE
PRINT EXP1 EXP2
BY BUSINESS_REGION AS Region
WHERE BUSINESS_REGION EQ 'EMEA'
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOPAGE
END

The output is shown in the following image.